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“ He exhausted himself last night , ” Dorothea said to herself , thinking at first that he was asleep , and that the summer - house was too damp a place to rest in . But then she remembered that of late she had seen him take that attitude when she was reading to him , as if he found it easier than any other ; and that he would sometimes speak , as well as listen , with his face down in that way . She went into the summerhouse and said , “ I am come , Edward ; I am ready . ” He took no notice , and she thought that he must be fast asleep . She laid her hand on his shoulder , and repeated , “ I am ready ! ” Still he was motionless ; and with a sudden confused fear , she leaned down to him , took off his velvet cap , and leaned her cheek close to his head , crying in a distressed tone — “ Wake , dear , wake ! Listen to me . I am come to answer . ” But Dorothea never gave her answer . Later in the day , Lydgate was seated by her bedside , and she was talking deliriously , thinking aloud , and recalling what had gone through her mind the night before . She knew him , and called him by his name , but appeared to think it right that she should explain everything to him ; and again , and again , begged him to explain everything to her husband . “ Tell him I shall go to him soon : I am ready to promise . Only , thinking about it was so dreadful — it has made me ill . Not very ill . I shall soon be better . Go and tell him . ” But the silence in her husband’s ear was never more to be broken . CHAPTER XLIX . “ A task too strong for wizard spells This squire had brought about ; ’ T is easy dropping stones in wells , But who shall get them out ? ” “ I wish to God we could hinder Dorothea from knowing this , ” said Sir James Chettam , with a little frown on his brow , and an expression of intense disgust about his mouth . He was standing on the hearth - rug in the library at Lowick Grange , and speaking to Mr . Brooke . It was the day after Mr . Casaubon had been buried , and Dorothea was not yet able to leave her room . “ That would be difficult , you know , Chettam , as she is an executrix , and she likes to go into these things — property , land , that kind of thing . She has her notions , you know , ” said Mr . Brooke , sticking his eye - glasses on nervously , and exploring the edges of a folded paper which he held in his hand ; “ and she would like to act — depend upon it , as an executrix Dorothea would want to act . And she was twenty - one last December , you know . I can hinder nothing . ”
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